College Admissions? Of Buchenwald and Princeton
By Mandy Katz
Some of his Frankfurt gymnasium teachers ended up in Buchenwald, my Tel Aviv correspondent Ernest Stock writes, but he ended up graduating from...
The Settlers' Intifada
by Jeremy Gillick
Much of the West Bank is in turmoil following this morning's highly anticipated evacuation of the Orwellian "House of Peace" in Hebron. Though...
An Interview with Peter Manseau, Author of Songs for the Butcher's Daughter
By Jeremy Gillick
“Rise and go to the town of the killings,” Bialik wrote of Kishinev, the Moldovan city, formerly Russian, where a 1903 Easter Sunday...
A Eulogy for Rivka and Gavriel Holtzberg
This eulogy for Rivka and Gavriel Holtzberg found its way to us at ITM and we think it's worth sharing with our readers. It is...
Mumbai Attack, Jewish Angle
By Benjamin Schuman-Stoler
All our Thanksgiving weekends were touched with sadness as news from Mumbai interrupted what should have been cheery days watching football and spending...
Could an Evacuation of the Jewish Settlement in Hebron Spark an Israeli Civil War?
By Jeremy Gillick
There is an interesting drama developing around one of the West Bank’s most radical and controversial Jewish settlements. Home to the Ma’arat HaMachpelah—the...
The Forward 50: 2008 Jews of the Year
By Jeremy Gillick
The Forward has published its annual list of America’s 50 most important Jews: the Forward 50.
Winners include Rahm Emanuel, Obama's newly appointed Chief...
A B’racha for Barack? The Obama Kiddush
By Mandy Katz
Raise a glass tonight and every night through January 20. You don't have to know Hebrew to intone this one (though it helps...
Is Rahm Emanuel the Jewish LBJ?
Who is Rahm Emanuel (Barack Obama’s new Chief of Staff)?
For starters, he’s Jewish. He, his wife Amy, and their three children attend the Anshei Sholom...
Palestinians Inaugurate National Soccer Stadium
Don't you just love it when a sporting event is used to boil down the immense complexities of geopolitical circumstance to a few simplistic characteristics?...
Get Wigged Out Like Palin
A mere day after John McCain named his vice-presidential choice, I hatched a clever plan to dress as Sarah Palin for Halloween. Soon after, though,...